Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On January - 28 andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On this day in history friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on this day in history.   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore   

1820  On this day in history russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.   

1821  Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica on January - 28.   

1822  On January - 28 alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)   

1824  William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) on this day in history.   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on this day in history.   

1828  Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor on this day in history.   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on January - 28.   

1830  The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris) on January - 28.   

1830  On this day in history opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris   

1831  Henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 on this day in history.   

1832  Franz Wullner, composer on January - 28.   

1833  On January - 28 charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)   

1838  Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] on January - 28.   

1841  On this day in history the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) on this day in history.   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on this day in history.   

1848  On January - 28 king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on January - 28.   

1853  On January - 28 jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician   

1855  On this day in history the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on January - 28.   

1858  On this day in history john Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry   

1860  On this day in history britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua   

1864  Battle of New Bern, NC on this day in history.   

1864  On this day in history herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer   

1865  President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on January - 28.   

1865  Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on January - 28.   

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1225  On January - 28 birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on January - 28.   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on January - 28.   

1540  Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on January - 28.   

1578  On this day in history birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on January - 28.   

1600  On January - 28 birth of clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)   

1608  On this day in history birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1061  Death of Duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031) on this day in history.   

1119  Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies on this day in history.   

1256  Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22 on this day in history.   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On this day in history death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On this day in history philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies